xxix, 324 p. : 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-315) and index

The archaeological and cultural significance of the Lady of Elche -- The distinctive characteristics of the Lady of Elche -- The historical emergence of early Iberian art -- A survey of Iberian sculpture in the Spanish levant -- The archaeological site of La Alcudia -- The Dama de Baza and the Dama del Cabezo Lucero -- The Iberian sculptures from Cerro de los Santos and Llano de la Consolacion -- The stylistic anomalies of the Lady of Elche -- The Lady of Elche and late-nineteenth-century sculpture and its culture -- Art forgeries: methodology and identification --

Nineteenth-century Spanish art forgeries and forgers -- How the "Dama Master" created the Lady of Elche -- Who "commissioned" the Lady of Elche? -- Two provocative discoveries at La Alcudia -- The evidence reviewed, with observations on historical taste and the syndrome of modernist Fakes and Hoaxes -- Artistic aftermath: Constantin Brancusi, Pablo Picaso, and the permanent exhibition of Iberian sculpture in the Louvre

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